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Simpson was arraigned yesterday on the break-in charges in Brighton Municipal Court and then taken to Dorchester Municipal Court to face the drug charges, according to police...
What brass! When she had the nerve to try to become a practicing attorney, Myra Bradwell was rebuked by no less a body than the U.S. Supreme Court. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," wrote Justice Joseph Bradley in an 1873 opinion. A century later, the unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their...
...stand, the defense read to the jury an extraordinary 42-page "admission of facts," disclosing that secret efforts to provide support for the Nicaraguan contras involved not only North but also Ronald Reagan, former Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Casey and, most important, George Bush. The court paper was supplied by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh with the approval of Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. It had been drawn up to satisfy North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, who had fought for months for the right to use classified documents to demonstrate that North's contra activities...
...must negotiate a new contract with Eastern's hard-bargaining machinists. They walked out last month and the carrier was forced into bankruptcy when the airline's pilots refused to cross picket lines. Even if Ueberroth wins labor peace, the Eastern sale must be approved by the federal bankruptcy court and Eastern's creditors, a process that could take months. Once he is firmly at the controls, Ueberroth must struggle to fill his planes with consumers who have switched to other airlines while most Eastern flights have been grounded. As Ueberroth put it, "We're going to have...
Feminist legal scholars are challenging male bias in everything from textbooks to fundamental doctrine. -- The Supreme Court allows the use of "drug-courier profiles" to spot suspected smugglers...